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Molecular structure and dynamics of liquid crystals based nanocomposites

2012/05/B/ST3/02782

Keywords:

Liquid crystals nanoporous materials optical polarimetry nonlinear optics dielectric spectroscopy

Descriptors:

  • ST3_12: Molecular electronics
  • ST3_15: Statistical physics of condensed matter, phase transitions, noise and fluctuations, etc.
  • ST3_18:

Panel:

ST3 - Condensed matter physics: structure, electronic properties, fluids, nanosciences, biological physics

Host institution :

Politechnika Częstochowska, Wydział Elektryczny

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Principal investigator (from the host institution):

prof. Andriy Kityk 

Number of co-investigators in the project: 2

Call: OPUS 3 - announced on 2012-03-15

Amount awarded: 499 800 PLN

Project start date (Y-m-d): 2013-03-07

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2016-03-06

Project duration:: 36 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Project settled

Equipment purchased [PL]

  1. Aparat do spektroskopowych badań dielektrycznych (Response Analyzer, Solatron-Slumberger, model 1260A) (150 000 PLN)

Information in the final report

  • Publication in academic press/journals (11)
  • Articles in post-conference publications (5)
  1. High-resolution dielectric study reveals pore-size-dependent orientational order of a discotic liquid crystal confined in tubular nanopore
    Authors:
    S. Całus, A.V.Kityk, L.Borowik, R.Lefort, D.Morineau, C.Krause, A.Schonhals, M.Busch and Patrick Huber
    Academic press:
    Physical Review E (rok: 2015, tom: 92, strony: 012503-1 do 012503-6), Wydawca: American Physical Society
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1103/PhysRevE.92.012503 - link to the publication
  2. Molecular dynamics of pyrene based discotic liquid crystals confined in nanopores probed by incoherent quasielastic neutron scattering
    Authors:
    Makha Ndao, Ronan Lefort, Carole V. Cerclier, Remi Busselez, Denis Morineau, Bernhard Frick,Jacques Ollivier,Andriy V. Kityk, Patrick Huber
    Academic press:
    RSC Advances (rok: 2014, tom: 4, strony: 59358–59369), Wydawca: Royal Society of Chemistry
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1039/c4ra13032d - link to the publication
  3. Chiral Phases of a Confined Cholesteric Liquid Crystal: Anchoring-Dependent Helical and Smectic Self-Assembly in Nanochannels
    Authors:
    S. Całus, M. Busch, A.V.Kityk, W. Piecek, P. Huber
    Academic press:
    Journal of Physical Chemistry C (rok: 2016, tom: 120, strony: 11727-11738), Wydawca: American Chemical Society
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b03553 - link to the publication
  4. Inhomogeneous relaxation dynamics and phase behaviour of a liquid crystal confined in a nanoporous solid.
    Authors:
    S.Całus, A.V.Kityk, M.Eich and P.Huber
    Academic press:
    Soft Matter (rok: 2015, tom: 11, strony: 3176-3187), Wydawca: Royal Society of Chemistry
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1039/C5SM00108K - link to the publication
  5. Paranematic-to-nematic ordering of a binary mixture of rodlike liquid crystals confined in cylindrical nanochannels
    Authors:
    Sylwia Całus, Beata Jabłonska, Mark Busch, Daniel Rau, Patrick Huber, Andriy V. Kityk
    Academic press:
    PHYSICAL REVIEW E (rok: 2014, tom: 89, strony: 062501-1 do 062501-12), Wydawca: American Physical Society
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1103/PhysRevE.89.062501 - link to the publication
  6. Thermotropic orientational order of discotic liquid crystals in nanochannels: an optical polarimetry study and a Landau–de Gennes analysis
    Authors:
    Andriy V. Kityk, Mark Busch, Daniel Rau, Sylwia Calus, Carole V. Cerclier, Ronan Lefort, Denis Morineau, Eric Grelet, Christina Krause, Andreas Schonhals, Bernhard Frick, Patrick Huber
    Academic press:
    Soft Matter (rok: 2014, tom: 10, strony: 4522-4534), Wydawca: Royal Society of Chemistry
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1039/c4sm00211c - link to the publication
  7. Thermotropic nematic order upon nanocapillary filling
    Authors:
    Patrick Huber, Mark Busch, Sylwia Całus, and Andriy V. Kityk
    Academic press:
    Physical Review E (rok: 2013, tom: 87, strony: 042502-1 do 042502-6), Wydawca: American Physical Society, Physics
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1103/PhysRevE.87.042502 - link to the publication
  8. A ferroelectric liquid crystal confined in cylindrical nanopores: reversible smectic layer buckling, enhanced light rotation and extremely fast electro-optically active Goldstone excitations
    Authors:
    M. Busch, A.V. Kityk, W. Piecek, T. Hofmann, D. Wallacher, S. Całus, P. Kula, M. Steinhart, M. Eich, P. Huber
    Academic press:
    Nanoscale (rok: 2017, tom: 9, strony: 19086-19099), Wydawca: Royal Society of Chemistry
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1039/c7nr07273b - link to the publication
  9. Molecular ordering of the discotic liquid crystal HAT6 confined in mesoporous solids
    Authors:
    Sylwia Całus, Andriy V. Kityk, Patrick Huber
    Academic press:
    Microporous and Mesoporous Materials (rok: 2014, tom: 197, strony: 26-32), Wydawca: Elsevier
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1016/j.micromeso.2014.05.036 - link to the publication
  10. Spatial variation of molecular dynamics in the nanoconfined glass former methanol
    Authors:
    Andriy V. Kityk, Patrick Huber, Rolf Pelster, Klaus Knorr
    Academic press:
    The Journal of Physical Chemistry C (rok: 2014, tom: 118, strony: 12548−12554), Wydawca: American Chemical Society
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1021/jp502565x - link to the publication
  11. Thermotropic interface and core relaxation dynamics of liquid crystals in silica glass nanochannels: a dielectric spectroscopy study
    Authors:
    S. Całus, L.Borowik, A.V.Kityk, M. Eich, M.Busch and P. Huber
    Academic press:
    Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (rok: 2015, tom: 17, strony: 22115-22124), Wydawca: Royal Society of Chemistry
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1039/C5CP03039K - link to the publication
  1. Binary mixtures of rod-like liquid crystals in cylindrical nanochannels
    Authors:
    Sylwia Całus, Andriy Kityk, Patrick Huber
    Conference:
    NanoIsrael-The 4th International Nanotechnology Conference & Exhibition (rok: 2014, ), Wydawca: kenes exhibitions
    Data:
    konferencja 24-25.03
    Status:
    Published
  2. Ferroelectric liquid crystal in nanoconfinement: Molecular ordering inside tabular nanochannels explored by optical polarimetry techniques
    Authors:
    S. Całus and A.V.Kityk
    Conference:
    15th International Conference on Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals (rok: 2015, ), Wydawca: Fyzikalni ustav AV CR, v.v.i.
    Data:
    konferencja 28.06-03.07
    Status:
    Published
  3. Optical studies on a sequential filling of silica nano-capillarie with a rod-like liquid crystal
    Authors:
    Sylwia Całus, Mark Busch, Patrick Huber, Andriy V. Kityk
    Conference:
    XI Latinamerican Meeting on Optics, Lasers and Applications (rok: 2013, ), Wydawca: Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto
    Data:
    konferencja July 22-26
    Status:
    Published
  4. Thermotropic ordering of discotic liquid crystals in nanochannels: an optical polarimetry study
    Authors:
    Sylwia Całus, Patrick Huber, Andriy V. Kityk
    Conference:
    11th International Conference on Nanoscience & Nanotechnologies (rok: 2014, ), Wydawca: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
    Data:
    konferencja 8-11.07
    Status:
    Published
  5. Dielectric spectroscopy on the relaxation dynamics and phase behavior of the rod-like nematogen condensed in nanochannels
    Authors:
    Sylwia Całus, Andriy V. Kityk, Manfred Eich and Patrick Huber
    Conference:
    Nano Today Conference 2015 (rok: 2015, ), Wydawca: Elsevier, Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology w Singapurze oraz Journal Nano Today
    Data:
    konferencja 06-10.12
    Status:
    Published